[jawsscripts] Re: Jaws 13 OCR

  • From: Trouble <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:39:13 -0400

If they would fix all the known bugs and forget 
about bells and useless whistles. Then it would 
be worth the price instead of being the highest priced junk on the market.
I would rather see good software then half ass programming!

At 05:50 PM 9/16/2011, you wrote:
>I can't think of another company, accessibility related or not, that
>doesn't go after filling up the feature matrix first and getting dinged
>for not caring about existing customers, quality, bug fixes and so on.
>IMHO, FS isn't any better or worse than any other company or product I
>can think of in this respect.
>
>It also seems to me that FS, MS or most any company is in a no win
>situation. If FS came out with a JFW 13 that was mostly focused on bug
>fixes and performance then people would resent having to pay an SMA for
>something they should have gotten in the first place or would complain
>about having to pay for something that was such a small change from the
>previous version. If they add a new feature then there will be those who
>aren't interested in that feature and those who resent the fact that FS
>has implemented a new feature instead of fixing their pet bug.
>
>Well, that's just my $0.02. I'll go back to wearing out my delete key.
>
>On 16/09/11 16:31, gary melconian wrote:
> > Hello I beg to differ. I have been with a few other access tech companies,
> > an they have first of all fixed any issues that customers have had and then
> > added new features and that is the way if we 
> want to have stable and useable
> > products and bells and whistles that are not 
> useful to us but to impress the
> > shareholders of Fs and who cares if the Shareholder don?t have paying
> > customers and then who is going to by this piece of  shit which I have seen
> > lately been a toy and not a useful 
> productivity tool as it use  to be in the
> > passed. I  se no  use in renewing sma's if fs keeps this crap up with its
> > customers.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of G-Dog
> > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 12:44 PM
> > To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws 13 OCR
> >
> > Look man you don't byte the hand that feeds you Bro and JM has bounced
> > around quite a bit over the years.  With such 
> a small market there is bound
> > to be the odd indiscretion notice by people.
> > No matter how ludicris the remarks, he's just doing his job
> > Now if FS would do there's and fix stability 
> and bugs, then that, would, be,
> >
> > quote Game changeing unquote!
> > because all the target community developers focus on features, not
> > performance for new upgrades.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andre Williams" <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 1:23 PM
> > Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws 13 OCR
> >
> >
> > Guys, this seems like another useless jaws 
> feature. This OCR thing is almost
> > exactly what one can do with a screen capture utility built into Windows or
> > what you can download get for fee.
> > 
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Take-a-screen-capture-print-your
> > -screen
> >
> > Yeah, this screen capture process might be 
> slightly faster with jaws 13, but
> > is this worth a hit on one's SMA? I say h no!
> >
> > If you listen to the FS podcast you will also come across something to the
> > effect of Jonathan saying that scriptors on 
> this list were all excited about
> > this new feature. I don't recall a single post on this list commenting on
> > this feature. This makes Jonathan less than credible but I don't fall for
> > company BS about their own products anyways. Furthermore, I wil now accept
> > Jonathan's comments with a handful of salt. He's lots almost total
> > credibility with me with this comment at it is blatantly disingenuous. He
> > also claimed this feature to be a game changer in screen reader technology.
> >
> > A-W
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Smart" <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 8:00 AM
> > Subject: [jawsscripts] Jaws 13 OCR
> >
> >
> > So, have any of you played with the OCR feature in Jaws 13 beta yet?
> >
> > I managed to register a program last night, whose initial
> > registration screen was formerly invisible to Jaws. Too bad that
> > once I registered the program, the rest of the application turned
> > out to be invisible as well. *LOL*
> >
> > So far, we can ocr and then read or mouse click on the results.
> > In what ways could this new information gleaned through OCR be tied
> > to other Jaws functions? I'm thinking it would be nice to be able
> > to put the Jaws cursor on part of the OCR results and transfer the
> > text into the graphics labeler, for example.
> >
> > Chris
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